![]() ![]() ![]() In 2009, the magazine Oxford American voted Absalom, Absalom! the best Southern novel of all time (yep, it beat To Kill a Mockingbird – how about that!). Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! was one of the main reasons Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in literature. ![]() But don't let that scare you off: after all, it's a pretty big deal. William Faulkner's novel is so rich and complex that it can be tough to follow. Shmoop thinks it should have been something more like this: Absalom, Absalom!?! This story has it all – multiple narrators, mysterious characters, shifts in time – and that's kind of the problem. The exclamation point in Absalom, Absalom!doesn't quite do it justice. ![]()
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